Police and Fire

Friday

Dec 14, 2012 at 10:54 AM

Friday, Dec. 14

SAULT STE. MARIEFraud complaintSault Police are investigating an unsuccessful financial transaction that left a local man without his phone and cash reimbursement.According to reports, the man sold the phone over the Internet and sent it out back in October, only to have the recipient claim that it no longer worked. The local man seemed willing to give a refund if the phone was returned, but when the box was returned to his address it only contained a cord and other accessories.The phone, valued at $270, remains missing.The local man needed a police report to file a claim against the buyer and police completed all the paperwork related to this transaction on Thursday.

Staggering in the streetCity police were alerted to a man staggering in the street near the I-75 Business Spur and Ashmun Street juncture shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday.officers arrived to find the seemingly intoxicated man had made his way into a nearby parking lot.The man said he lived nearby and was on his way home for the evening allowing police to close the books on this matter with a simple warning.